ASJ Virender Bhat rejected Pradeep Kumar's plea seeking direction to lodge a criminal case against SHO Rajesh Dahiya and ASI Krishan Kumar saying this is not a "fit case where any sort of investigation by police is necessitated".
"It needs to be emphasised that the order directing registration of FIR against police officials entails very serious consequences so far as those police officials are concerned and also has a great bearing upon the minds of the general public.
"Such an order paves the way for imminent arrest of the concerned police officials and their suspension from services. Their career and future prospects get adversely affected and no compensation at all will be adequate if later on they are absolved of the charges and the allegations against them are found to be wholly untrue," the court said.
The court order came on Pradeep's plea against the magisterial court's Sept one decision, which had dismissed his application to get its order for registering an FIR and also its direction for police investigation.
In his plea before the trial court, Pradeep had alleged that on the intervening night of July 18-19 when he and his cousin Ravi Kumar were on their way back home after attending a wedding in Rohini, SHO Rajesh had stopped their car and asked for vehicle-related documents.
Prosecution had said that after Pradeep's cousin handed over the papers to Rajesh, the SHO of Jaffarpur Kalan police station kept it in his pocket and refused to return them.
Rajesh and his subordinate Krishan also snatched Rs 20,000 from the complainant and his cousin and threatened that they would be implicated in false criminal cases if they mentioned the incident to anyone, prosecution alleged.
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The policemen also forced the duo to gulp down whisky in order to falsely show that they were drunk, prosecution said, adding that false MLCs were also prepared by the cops in collusion with a doctor.
Prosecution said the duo were then confined in the police lock-up and assaulted mercilessly.
The court, however, rejected the plea observing that all the allegations of Pradep have been "specifically denied and refuted" in the report filed by the Additional Commissioner of Police, South West District.
It also said the petitioner and his associate at no stage either during the incident or after it tried to make a call to police or have informed doctor and have also not said anything before the magistrate, despite several opportunities.